Thanks to police and drone industry lobbyists North Dakota cops can now arm their drones with “less than lethal” weapons like tasers, rubber bullets, and tear gas. Although the original sponsors of the bill tried to ban all weaponry on police drones, Bruce Burkett of the North Dakota Peace Officer’s Association helped amend the bill…
By Blake Neff A guide to preventing “bias incidents” published by Rutgers University warns students that the idea of “free speech” is a lie, Campus Reform reports. “There is no such thing as ‘free’ speech. All speech has a cost and consequences,” opens the page dedicated to the school’s “Bias Prevention & Education Committee.” The page, maintained by…
By Jonah Bennett A Phoenix Department of Veterans Affairs police investigator claims he was pressured by a supervisor to lie and write false statements about a medical patient, in order to justify unlawful detention, according to an internal investigative report. On Nov. 4, 2013, VA police responded to a call from staff at the Phoenix VA. A patient placed…
By Casey Harper A Nevada girl who says her high school forbid her from starting a pro-life club is fighting back. Angelique Clark says she wanted to start a pro-life group on her school’s campus but was denied by the administration because abortion was controversial, would make people feel left out, and that others were “more qualified”…
By Connor D. Wolf In the past year the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour has seen success in a few major cities – and now several more are looking to be next. Seattle led the way in implementing a $15 minimum wage back in June 2014. San Francisco and Los…
By Madalyn Harper It’s an all too common scene: a crazy off-campus party, gratuitous amounts of alcohol, and hormones spilling all over the place. College life was relatively the same for John Doe, as it was for any young Washington and Lee University-goer. He went to a party, met a pretty girl, and engaged in…
By Erica Wenig An Egyptian policewoman cracked down on sexual harassment outside a Cairo cinema during the three-day Muslim holiday this weekend, arresting and shocking an alleged offender with an electric baton. The one-minute video captured Egyptians crowding the cinema’s entrance while a policewoman, wearing a long-sleeved uniform and a white hijab under her hat, dragged the young man…
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By: Ryan Carrillo Arizona police must be really hurting to fill some arrest quotas because one officer recently threatened to arrest a woman’s dog. A video captured in Snowflake, Arizona, shows a police officer threatening a woman with the arrest of her dog. A portion of the exchange between the woman, Terri Franklin, and the…
By: Laura Meyers In Muncie, Indiana, a group of senior citizens is being targeted by the state for their illegal game of euchre. One group of about 50 seniors at the Delaware county Senior Citizens Center gets together weekly to play a card game called euchre, calling it “Vegas on West Eighth Street.” Players pay…
Labor Department Sets Its Sights On The Sharing Economy Connor D. Wolf on July 16, 2015 The U.S. Department of Labor joined opponents of the “sharing economy” Wednesday in condemning the new use of contracting as a way to avoid paying employee benefits. “Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is found in an increasing number…